Most IT Directors are charged with managing projects at an enterprise scale, creating new infrastructures that set the business up for growth, or resolving support issues that threaten business operations.

Here’s where you’ll want to consider the scope and impact of these initiatives on the business for your IT Director resume. Answering these questionswill help you pull in the metrics of most value to employers:

What was the original business case and ROI for the project? Did it meet these goals?

During implementation, what type of cost savings were achieved?

How did your decisions affect the outcome of the project or initiative? For example, were you able to avert problems with vendors or consultants?

What type of increases in Help Desk responsiveness and resolutions have you led?

Pulling in these figures will add credibility to your IT Director resume, and demonstrate the value of your leadership from a business angle – showing that you’ve far exceeded the perspective of a technician.

2 – Cost Containment.

As technology leaders rise up the corporate ladder, they’re expected to drive technology improvement, but only for the business’ sake. This means an increased focus on cost control—which is also a critical duty for most CIOs.

To derive cost savings from your projects, you may need to revisit user satisfaction and productivity numbers from previously deployed initiatives. Some areas to examine for cost savings include:

Changes in IT budgets from a switch to different vendors

Advances in automation that allowed departments to reduce headcount

Cost avoidance from challenging IT or vendor strategy

Don’t forget to include the naturally occurring outcome of server or data center consolidations, where applicable, in your cost control metrics. These are all attention-grabbing figures that help justify a stronger salary increase and your merits as an IT leader.

3 – Strategic Planning.

One of the hallmarks to an IT leadership role, the development of long-term IT roadmaps should take center stage on your IT Director resume. Requiring you to align business needs with cutting-edge or emerging technologies, roadmap creation will help place you among top contenders for an IT Director role.

In addition, you can include the strategy for major initiatives, such as a shift in telecom direction, data warehousing function, or cloud development, as an example of your strategic IT perspective on the resume.

You may have also set projections for supporting trouble ticket volume scaled to the size of the user base.

Most candidates for a Director, Vice President of IT, or CIO role will also have collaborated closely with executives to define the company’s future needs according to acquisitions, growth forecasts, or industry changes.

This involvement requires that you not only have access to confidential company projections, but also demonstrates your ability to grasp business needs and scale platforms accordingly.

In summary, your IT Director resume will quickly stand out among competitors if you take the time to review the scale, meaning, and impact of your work with the business.

There’s no shortage of employers that seek IT leaders capable of formulating and directing plans that support the business, while keeping an eye on best-fit technologies – so you’ll need to trumpet these skills to land your next role faster!

Award-winning executive resume writer Laura Smith-Proulx of An Expert Resume (http://www.anexpertresume.com/) partners with executives and rising stars to capture top jobs.
A 10-time certified job search coach, master resume writer, LinkedIn expert, and former recruiter, Laura’s work has been featured in Forbes, CIO.com, CareerBuilder, Wall Street Journal, Time, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, and other media.
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Award-winning executive resume writer Laura Smith-Proulx of An Expert Resume (http://www.anexpertresume.com/) partners with executives and rising stars to capture top jobs.
A 10-time certified job search coach, master resume writer, LinkedIn expert, and former recruiter, Laura’s work has been featured in Forbes, CIO.com, CareerBuilder, Wall Street Journal, Time, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, and other media.
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